- Aussies full 3-0 clear sweep of sequence
- Historical past made on a number of fronts in Jamaica
Mitchell Starc has produced one of many all-time nice bowling spells and Scott Boland taken a hat-trick as Australia bowled West Indies out for 27 to win the third Take a look at.
On a historic day in Jamaica, Australia’s quicks ran riot to wrap up a 176-run victory and declare a 3-0 sequence sweep of the Frank Worrell Trophy.
Chasing 204 for victory, West Indies’ fourth innings lasted simply 14.3 overs and solely marginally eclipsed the bottom ever Take a look at complete of 26 by New Zealand in 1955.
Boland grew to become simply the tenth Australian to assert a Take a look at hat-trick, nevertheless it was Starc who ripped the center out of the hosts with figures of 6-9.
Starc took three wickets within the first over of West Indies’ second innings and claimed 5 in 15 balls to at one stage have them 5-7.
Taking part in in his a centesimal Take a look at, Starc additionally grew to become the fourth Australian to achieve the 400-wicket milestone, becoming a member of greats Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Nathan Lyon.
Mitchell Starc celebrates after taking 5 wickets in simply 15 balls in opposition to the Windies to set a brand new world report within the third Take a look at in Jamaica
Starc wasn’t the one Aussie fast on a scorching streak, with Scott Boland (pictured) taking a hat-trick because the hosts have been bowled out for simply 27 – the second-lowest Take a look at rating ever
The demolition on Tuesday morning, Australian time, offers the Aussies a clear sweep of the sequence (skipper Pat Cummins is pictured with the Frank Worrell Trophy)
Starc’s 15-ball five-wicket haul marked the quickest by any bowler in Take a look at historical past, beating Ernie Toshack from 1947, Stuart Broad’s 2015 Trent Bridge effort and Scott Boland’s MCG heroics of 2021.
Every of these took 19 balls.
Starc additionally grew to become the second man to take three wickets within the opening over of an innings, placing when he had John Campbell caught behind first ball.
He then trapped Kevlon Anderson lbw when the correct hander left a ball that tailed in at him, earlier than bowling Brandon King with the final ball of the over.
Starc’s assault carried into his third over, claiming his four-hundredth Take a look at scalp with one other ball that swung into Mikyle Louis’ again pad.
Shai Hope adopted two balls later, once more trapped lbw.
At that time Starc had figures of 5-2, with the one runs off him coming by way of the surface fringe of Hope’s bat and thru the slips.
Starc may have had a sixth sufferer, had Sam Konstas not grassed two possibilities at third slip to take away Alzarri Joseph both facet of tea.
However that opened the door for Boland’s hat-trick.
Known as in for Nathan Lyon, the Victorian edged off Justin Greaves, had Shamar Joseph lbw and bowled Jomel Warrican in consecutive balls.
The hat-trick marked Australia’s first in a Take a look at since Peter Siddle within the 2010-11 Ashes.
In all, 4 of West Indies’ high 5 have been dismissed for geese, with Louis the one one to bother the scorers with a 4 when he edged Hazlewood to the boundary.
Australia’s report displaying got here after they appeared in peril of dropping the Take a look at, when bowled out for 121 of their second innings.
